Cars won't change 'Everything', self driving or not. Thinking and building the infrastructures to handle smoothly different types of transportations for differ

Cars won't change 'Everything', self driving or not. Thinking and building the infrastructures to handle smoothly different types of transportations for different purposes, managing the energy consumption and pollution problems, making efficient public transportation work in high population density areas, have smarter roads in the more rural areas and keep in mind communities' safety and well being while designing it all. All these are large problem that cost a lot, require cooperation from big players from everywhere, and need to be done gradually and consistently over decades. There was a very very interesting talk by Horace Dediu on this topic on his podcast [0] Solving the low level infra problem changes everything, having self driving cars is the icing on the cake at best. [0] http://5by5.tv/criticalpath/40 http://5by5.tv/criticalpath/40